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A Report on Progress with the Further Implementation of FreeREG
April 2006
In November 2005, the FreeREG project team reported that it had commenced the preliminary testing of its search engine. Following the successful conclusion of those tests, a decision was made early in the New Year to...

Thanks to the dedication of the developer, Mike Fry in deepest Africa, we are able to announce that WinREG 2 has been officially released and is available for general use. Thank you Mike.
WinREG 2 has had two months of testing by Jude, Harry, Winnie, Leonard, Marion, Pam, Rachel, DaveN, Kirk and...

The objective of the FreeREG Project is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, that have been extracted from parish registers as well as non-conformist church records of the UK. Our aim is to make it easier for researchers, no matter where they...

Just a short reminder on the issue of using the IGI as a source for transcriptions into FreeREG.
The following is the current view as expressed in the FAQ of FreeREG.
The IGI is an index of records in some (but not all) parish registers. However, it does belong to the Church of Jesus...

Hi folks, quick qu.
With WinREG/3 v3.02.18 now updated.. and the website now version 2.0 i am now having to log in to the website from my browser go through the batches section and manually search for, find the file i want to upload file?
Pre updated system.. i could go through the drop down...

greetings all, searches on FreeReg have returned information including a
`FileNumber` (eg 17697) - can anyone please tell me what the FileNumber refers to and where I can find more about this record
thanks Bryce

First I would like to say what a wonderful site this has become. However I have done something and all the text now appears in very large fonts. Nothing else on my computer has been affected. I have restarted my computer but I have still got a large font on FreeReg is there any way I can get it...

Hello Scribes,this makes a change from Latin translations,my Winreg has kicked the bucket,cocked it's clogs,call it what you will,I left it for a week or so to carry my tree a bit further back and when I tried to access the programme the other day i got the picture of the church,a "doeing" from the...

8 Apr 1663 Joseph Sands fil. Samuell ibm
Hello Scribes,
Can anyone help me with what looks like a Latin abreviation,its a burial entry,and its the ibm at the end which is a problem.
A thought did flash through my mind....................but no,no electricity in 1663
we won't go there.
...

To Free REG boffins,help,please,
I have uploaded file LANKIRBA3 to the main d/base,and then gone to Freereg to start a new file which I expected to be named LANKIRBA4,this did not happen all I got was LANKIRBA.This last named file I uploaded on Jan 3 2011.
How do I change it please?,or do I...

Hello Scribes,more help with Latin please, 1626 in Kirkham,Lancashire, doing Baptisms and have come across the following entry.
Joha f Arther vir quis ecleho (or eclcho) et Issabell Greenacres.
I have tried on line translations one of which came up with
"man who is ecleho" which could mean...

I've noticed that the new version of WinREG has a field called "File/Fiche" for baptisms, information being "Fiche or Film number" (which makes me wonder whether it should be called Film/ Fiche, but that's not my question.)
There is no such field for marriages or burials as far as I can see,...

I am currently entering early records for Mirfield and there are many forename variations eg. Anthony, Anthonie, Anthonye.
I have several times checked the advice on entering forenames and this says "We are encouraging transcribers to enter the name as they are actually written in the...

HI all
I'm just a newbie at this and have just downloaded WinReg 3.1 after using WinReg2 for a few days. Has anyone else used it yet as I'm abit confused as to the meaning of the colours.
I will get used to using the program it seems quite easy to use, but would quite like to know what the...

I've just tried to do a search on FreeReg, and find that Montgomeryshire is no longer listed, and that there are no place names listed at all. I've already done successful searches in that county, so it should be there. Is this something to do with the latest update to records?

Hello fellow scribes,I look for assurance that I am on the right track.
The date is around 1630 and I am transcribing Kirkham,Lancashire Parish Reg.,Marriages.
I have started to come across what appears to be the Latin "hujuis",which is appearing directly after a surname,somtimes only one...

Hello Scribes,can anyone help with advice on saving to a flash drive.
I have to go dog sitting for 8 days and would like to take my wifes laptop with FreeREG loaded, with me.
I am working with a disk of Kirkham Lancs,so all to now causes me no problem.
How do I get the laptop to save...

For anyone who is interested, I have, today, made version 3.1.4 available for use. You can get the updated software by using the 'Check for Updates' option under the Help menu.
The following is just some of the things that have been changed and/or corrected.
Version 3.1.4
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Many...

Can WinREG3 be installed alongside WinREG2? Is there an option in the installation process to put it in a different directory from WinREG2 and not to delete WinREG2?
I do not want to lose WinREG2 until I am happy with WinREG3.
JohnE

Does anybody know what is happening at Leicestershire? I have transcribed all nine of the burials for 1765 to 1772 images. I do not know if I have any more waiting for download as my user name is no longer recognised. Happy transcribing! NF.